Plans

Swarm is gearing up for a transition out of Alpha status into Beta. Final work to do before it's ready for "Beta" includes documentation, translations, and finishing up the initial image editor tool. The Beta will most likely also be relicensed as the fully FOSS MIT License.

Swarm is already at a point where it's one of the best possible UIs you can have for Stable Diffusion, and there's very few reasons to not use Swarm. Reaching Beta will mark the point where the reasons to use anything other than Swarm are almost nil. I'm incredibly proud of the progress this project has made over the past months in Alpha.

Major Updates

• A lot Grid Generator enhancements - https://github.com/Stability-AI/StableSwarmUI/discussions/11#discussioncomment-7862586
  • The GridGenerator tool can now generate "Just Images" or an "Image Grid" as an alternative to the webpage viewer thingy
  • The GridGenerator tool can now save/load configuration state
• Added Self-Attention-Guidance parameter options, under Advanced Sampling
• The 'Star' button on images now actually does something (saves a copy to the "Starred" folder). There's a usersetting for whether it'll use subfolders or not. Also highlights the starred images in the UI.
• DotNET 8 was released recently, and swarm will update to it in the near future. I recommend you install DotNET 8 in advance to make sure the update is painless when it comes https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/download/dotnet/8.0
• made the installer a lot nicer (both the install UI experience, and a proper Linux install script) - https://github.com/Stability-AI/StableSwarmUI/discussions/11#discussioncomment-7936481
• new parameter under Init Image group: Unsampler Prompt, use to unsample your input image before resampling. This replaces the random noise with noise based on the input image + a prompt, allowing for more tightly controlled image editing
• added a parameter filter at the top to more easily find obscure params

Minor Updates

• added a user setting to allow creating grids of images when you generate a bunch at once (eg a 2x2 grid when you generate 4 at once) (default disabled)
• added a user setting for image history length (default max 1000 images)
• image history now caches small preview thumbnails by default (you can disable this in user settings)
• added advanced swarm internal param no seed increment if for example you want to muck with wildcards and not have seed change, or whatever
• Grid Generator now has on-page docs and a link to the readme about it
• Grid Generator now highlights invalid values
• Grid Generator now supports skipping parameters with a SKIP: prefix
• Image Edit Batcher now has image resolution controls
• dropdowns now have fancy search text input
• backends list now has "Restart" and "View Logs" buttons on each backend for convenience
• Added No Previews advanced param under Swarm Internal. Implicitly enabled by default for grid generations. May make some generations slightly faster.
• Added Refiner Save Before Refine advanced param (under Refiner)
• video generation now has an option for different preview types, including live previews of the animated video while it generates
• there's now memory freeing controls - API route FreeBackendMemory, buttons on Server Info tab, and server settings for autoclear after specified time
• there's now a resource usage monitor on the server info tab
• as always, a bunch of other fixes n small things